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Hodgdon doesn't make their own smokeless powders. All they can do is sell what's available from their suppliers like General Dynamics (IMR, Winchester, Hodgdon, Accurate), ADI (Hodgdon Extreme) and PB Clermont (Ramshot).

Heat, not changes in temperature or humidity, is the enemy of smokeless powder. Nitrocellulose is kinda unstable, and is manufactured with concentrated nitric acid, some of which will inevitably remain in the finished product and degrade it faster. Modern powder is manufactured with stabilizers...

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Is this still available?

Do you have any pics of the actual item?

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Cheap and quality do go together in one, specific way for binoculars. Porro prism binos (the big, not straight ones) such as Nikon's Aculon series will typically be higher quality at a specific point than a comparable roof-pentaprism binocular. Nikon makes a 10x42 Aculon at <$100, others...

Swarovski scopes use Schott glass afaik (Schott AG is owned by the same consortium as Zeiss). Nobody uses flourite in riflescopes that I know of. Some have mentioned its use in spotting scopes and camera lenses. Flourite is also used in some specialty camera lenses for its transmissivity in...

Fire them, push them out, pull the bullet and develop a new magnum primer load... all valid options. Powder cheap, primers not... now that's just not true. A large rifle magnum primer is $.03, while 36 grains of IMR 4064 is $.10 (all prices current at PVI).

26 Nosler data should be very close.

Your stocks are awesome, but can they be had in much shorter LOP?

A single primer goes PFFFFFT!, not boom. You don't want it to go PFFFFFT! into your eyes, but if it goes off in a die, especially one as spacious as a 300RUM, it won't be a boom, of any sort. A primer won't even push the bullet out of any decent size case without powder. Keep your eyes safe...

People have talked about notching rims to ID various wildcats, brass batches, etc...

This is untrue. I own a factory 116 in .300 RUM that is very much push feed with an M16 style ejector. Not positive about the shank size.